takes over
Examples
It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
Whoever is versed in the jargon does not have to say what he thinks, does not even have to think it properly. The jargon takes over this task.
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.